Edith Williams (24 June 1899 – 24 November 1979) was a Canadian veterinarian, the second woman from the country to complete her training at the Ontario Veterinary College and life partner of Dr Frieda Fraser.

[6] Williams attended a private girls' school, Glen Mawr, in Toronto for ten years before enrolling in University College in 1916.

After some time, she began working as a clerk in the London branch of the Ontario Immigration Department, processing emigration forms for people wanting to move to Canada.

[12] After nearly three years abroad, Williams returned to Canada initially settling in with her mother while she applied to the Ontario School of Agriculture, but was denied admittance.

[15] Williams established her practice at St. Clair and Mount Pleasant in Toronto and she and Fraser rented a house nearby on Heathdale Road.

[22][23][24] In her 40s, Williams developed the hobby of mountaineering, but she had always enjoyed the out-of-doors, frequently taking camping or canoeing trips with groups of other women friends.

[2] Upon her death, friends collected funds and established a bursary bearing Williams' name at the University of Guelph to be awarded to undergraduate students studying veterinary medicine in financial need.

[28] The archive contains nearly 1000 letters and is "one of the largest known collections detailing the experiences of women's same-sex sexuality in early twentieth century North America".

Given the cultural norm of their time which depicted same-sex couples as diseased, they referred to themselves as "devoted women", making the distinction that they were not depraved, but had chosen their partnership.

Both dismissed Freud and pseudo-scientific theories which argued for a natural order that governed human actions,[33] instead believing that their attraction was biological and innate, and not influenced by promiscuous living or self-loathing.